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recovering old windows live mail emails from a backup

have a copy of my old C drive with years of windows live mail emails in it. the program is long gone. is there any way to open or import those files into something current?
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jain_helpdesk Nov 04, 2026
stella_gadget
Good news is Live Mail stored every message as a separate .eml file, so they survive fine in a backup. Look for AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail inside your old user folder, there's a folder per account with the messages inside. Any .eml opens with a double click in most mail programs. To get the whole lot into something usable, Thunderbird with the ImportExportTools NG add-on can import a folder of .eml files in one go.
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